It involved many forms of civil disobedience, including: massive demonstrations, general strikes, refusal to pay taxes, boycotts of Israeli products, graffiti and underground ‘freedom schools’, as well as unarmed forms of resistance such as stone-throwing and Molotov cocktails.

By the end of 1988, there had been 23,092 demonstrations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

In the first three weeks of the uprising, more than 20 Palestinians were killed, with no Israeli fatalities.

According to B’Tselem, by September 1993, Israeli forces had killed 1,070 Palestinians in the oPt, including 237 children, with an additional 54 Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers.

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